Sherlock Holmes The stories of Sherlock Holmes and his foil Watson were originally created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first to be written was "A Study In Scarlet" but the stories" popularity didn't take hold properly until the Strand magazine began to publish "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" in 1890. When a new edition was published people rushed to ... Helen Stoner's in "The Speckled Band" who was also the victim. The differences between him and Helen are that Helen, because she was a woman, was made out to be a defenceless little thing who needed the protection of Holmes whe...

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